This petition will highlight two major issues in the Pakistani university system which many students may have dealt with. (Related news: https://www.dawn.com/news/1965255)

• Issue 1:
  • Description: Due to a minimum attendance policy by HEC, students who pay large sums in tuition fees are forced to sit through lectures taught poorly by instructors, only contributing to time wasting when students generally self-study through freely available online resources. In many cases, instructors lazily copy these free resources and read them from lecture slides during class, which is completely useless in helping students understand the material.
  • Solution: This petition requests HEC to consider removing this policy in its entirety. University students are grown adults who understand that if they don't understand the source material, they will fail the exam. The purpose of the university is to offer students a choice to understand the lecture material in class. The student may decide not to opt for that due to poor quality or other reasons. Regardless, if they don't understand the material well, they will fail the final exams, making this policy completely useless. To be noted that none of the top universities have policies like these.
• Issue 2:
  • Description: Many instructors (most notably in recent cases at universities like NED and UoL) exhibit personal biases, frustrations, and anger toward specific students while checking exams, quizzes, or other graded components to fail or severely damage the grade of a student.
  • Solution: For every graded component, the student should be allotted a new random 3-digit hexadecimal number. Three random digits will represent 4,096 unique students, which is far more than the number of students registered in a single class. This change will effectively anonymize graded components for the instructors who check them. After checking, the instructors will enter the grades into an online system that knows the secret mapping of the 3-digit random hexadecimal numbers to the student ID/name.

Please sign and share this petition to protect the students of Pakistan and make the university system a haven of learning rather than another hurdle students need to navigate. Please ignore the donations prompt as this petition just aims to create awareness of the issues.